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...Council passed a record 12 additional pieces of legislation last night. These acts included an expansion of the UC TKTS program—which lotteries free event tickets to students—to include events in Boston, and an initiative to improve the online student events calendar...
Though some Council members, such as Hayward, argued during the debate period that the UC should move on from the drama surrounding the presidential elections and direct its attention back to the “business of the council,” the censure motion—which requires a majority vote—passed 26-15-1 by secret ballot...
According to the censure resolution, which required 10 signatories to be brought to the general Council, McLeod “did knowingly abuse the power of her office” by collaborating with former UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Tamar Holoshitz ’10 and former UC presidential candidate Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10—both campaign staffers for former presidential candidate George J.J. Hayward ’11 and his running mate Felix M. Zhang’11—to send the “unsubstantiated e-mail” from the official ucpres@fas.harvard.edu...
...address to the Council, McLeod, who is also a Crimson video editor, said that she was “truly sorry” for her actions, but argued against the passing of the censure. “I really do feel that I took actions to rectify the problems that I am personally comfortable with...I personally didn’t have any bad intentions, it was just a critique of the process,” she said. “I am really sad that this has come to the point that it is affecting our productivity...
...earlier version of the Dec. 7 news article "Undergraduate Council Votes to Censure VP After Election Scandal" incorrectly stated that an e-mail sent by Kia J. McLeod '10 alleged that Eric N. Hysen '11 had accessed the official voting software and tampered with the vote tally. In fact, McLeod merely wrote—in conjunction with "an underlying concern about the validity of the voting process"—that Hysen "might still have" access to the voting software...